It takes a few years to understand what we've lived through. At the moment, we're still sort of mired in the irrelevant bullshit. There isn't yet that public conversation about 9/11.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

It's all very well to have principles, but when it comes to money you have to be flexible.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.